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Patented May 12, 1925.

UNITED CHARLES WEBB, or ronr miren, vrnernu..

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Application ined Angus 23,1924. sei-n1 no. 733,851.

To all 'whom it may concern.'

Be it known that l., CHARLES N EBB, a 'citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Myer, in the county oi' Arlington and State of Virginia, have invented certain neu7 and useful lmprovenients in Fly Rejectorsv for vVindoWsg and 1 do hereby declare the following to be a i'ull, clear, l.uid'exact description oi' the invention, such as Will en* able others skilled in the art to Which it appertains to inalreand use the same.

The present invention relates to 'a fly rejector for Windows, and has for an object to provide; a device adapted to be mounted upon the Window or window glass for the purpose of .intercepting flies or other insects Walking up the Window, and diverting such insects to the exterior of .the vwindow and the room.

- The invention -is intended to taire advantage of@ the Well known habits of these insects to Walk upwardly and toward the light, and to this end openings are made in the window or in the Window pane for the purpose of letting the insects out, and the improved. device is carried `iust inwardl \Y ot' these openings for the purpose ottrapping the i'lies and requiring that the insect Vseek the outside atmosphere through said openings.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention will he described more particularly in conjunction with the eccompanying drawings, in which like symbols re- -fer to like parts throughout the several 1nl the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary front elevation ot a Window equipped with the improved device. l

Fig. ,is ahorizontal section taxen through the same.

Fig. 3 is a vertical cross section on an enlarged scale taken substantially on the line 3-'3 in Figure 2.

Fig. 4 is a horizontal fragment-ary section taken on the line 1 -fl in Fig. 3. and4 Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of a detail.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, "tigdesignates the glass of the window or the Window pane," 1n which, according to the invention, a number, oi small openings 7 tal row, these openings being of a size to permit the passage of the tly or of insects that inhabit the locality where the device .is in use.

On the interior ot' the rooin and parallel with the piane of the window-pane, is supported. ii-"rod 8 mounted in bearings 9, provided in housings or gear casings 10, mounteri-,upon the pane at the opposite ends of the l rod. The rod 8 willl be preferably slightly shorter than the Width of the .Window pane, said rod beine ot sufficient 'length to extend over and slig itly beyond the row of openings 7. @n the ends of the rod, which project into the housings 10, are the bevel pinions 11 disposed in meshwith similar pinions 12 fixed upon the shafts or stems 13, which are journaled through the housings 10 at substantially rightangles to the axis of the rod 8. The stems 13 are provided with hand Wheels 14 on the exteriors of the housings to permit of convenient rotation of the'v A lhcgear boxes are preferably of a generally conical form in order-to provide ample space to house the gear Wheels and to retain,. necessary,y lubricant :for the same. The housings will, of course, exclude dust and other foreign matter from the Working parts. The' base portions of the housings are closed by cover plates 15l s0 that access may be had to the interior for the purpose et originally mounting the pinions therein and oi' subsequently supplymg 1u bricant and replacing worn parts. Screws or other fastening means may be provided to hold the cover plates upon the housings,

and these covers plates subserve the additional 'unction of clamps for holding the device upon .o the window-pane 6. To. this end, the cover plates are provided with v threaded posts 16 adapted to pass through openings 'made for the purpose i inl the Window-pane. Nuts 17 are vthreaded upon the `exterior ends of the posts,4 16, and

take against the outside of the glass, thus acting also in the capacity ,of clamps. Felt. or other appropriate material may be l placed against the glass to avoid. the contact of the metal therewith.

shown at 19,' and a third Sii-QfWhich also 110 1o. The rod 8 is rotatably mounted just below ,C

its formvery appropriate means for, holding ligrojects*downwardly from the rod, being,

ow'ever,shorter than the lingers 19 and disgpsed inwardly thereof. This third set of ngers 2O are disposed only alternately with 5 .the fingers 19 as shown in Figure 5. All of the fingers are curved from the rod 8 tof ward the -window glass, the upperyn'ngers terminating just abovelthe row of perforations and very close to the glass. The sec- 10 ondary lingers 19 are more widely separated from the glass, while the third 'set 20 are shorter than the ngers 19, and are .disposed v'with their lower freeiends closer to the glass.

` n y In the ,use of the device, the flies or other 115. insects will crawl up the window pane, and in this they will not be obstructed by the lower fingers 19 and 20. Finding themvselves within the enclosure of the various fingers, the fly will not retrace its steps down .the window pane, but will continue upwardly until arriving at the openings 7 to and through which the insects will be directed by the upper curved fingers 18. Of .co'urse, these various fingers'will be closely t assembled so as to prevent the fly from esy' caping therethrough, and the fingers form, in effect, acage'to house and arrest the fly 'i i until hepasses through one of the openings l7. Y One ,set of fingers 19 may suffice on the i .5.30 lower part of the rod to prevent the fly from escaping downwardly as this is against the habitof; the insect, but the additional altery:nate .-fing'ers20 will aid materially 4in pre- -..ventingf,eX it of the -insect in thisl direction.

l .35 The hand wheels 14 may be resorted to at .any time for4 the purpose of adjusting the rod'8 angularlyy or, in other words, rotating the rod in order to change the angular rela- .:'tion of thefngers with respect tothe plane Of course, inwinter, the devicemay be f either left uponv the window or removed .f f therefrom, and `astrip ofl material placed across the openings 7, The fingers will The a strip of felt across the openings.

'larlyu adjust the same add the upper fingers ISto a position where the latter fingers will be; moved as far as possible away from the window pane. `This will vpermitfelt or other ymaterial to bejslipped down between the glass and the upper fingers 18, and to' be pushed into the openings?. The openings i #may be thus plugged during the'winter months modifications may b ina ejin the details of 1 .construction and des gn of thev above specifion lly describpd embodiment of .this invention -4 without departing from the spirit thereof, euch .changes and modifications being reshaft y8 is made rotatable in order to angu-v i ffo'ltvis obvious' that @various changes and.

stricted onlyby the scope of the following claims.

Vhat is claimed is: 1.- In combination with a window having an opening, a rotary rodcarried 'adjacent the Window and said opening and having fingers projecting above and below for permitting the entrance of insects walking up the window, and guiding .such insects outwardly thro'ugh the opening. V

,2. `In combination with a window having an opening, a rotatable rod mounted. within' the 'window adjacent the opening and having fingers extending above and below the opening, said fingers below the opening beingv spaced from the window vto permit the entrance of insects to the space encompassed by said lingers, and means for imparting rotary movement to said rod and lingers.

3. A window glass having openings thercin, in combination with a rod journaled for rotary movement upon the glass and vhaving fingers extending upwardly vand adjacent the glass just above said openings, said rod also having lingers projecting downwardly and toward the glass, but being spaced from the glass a distance necessary to allow the passage of the insects, and means for adjusting said rod angularly.

4. A window having an openiinr 0fear casings carried by said window adjacent they opening, a. rod journaled in said -gear casings, shafts also journaled in `said gear casing, gear means between said shafts andv rod, and lingers projecting above and below the rod and extending toward said window above and below the opening; f

5. In a device of the kind described, a

6. In combination with a window having gers extending from said an. opening, a rod4 mounted adjacent the opening, an upper series of fingers on the rod extending toward the window above the opening, a second set of fingers extending downwardly-from `the rod and toward the window below the' opening, a third set of lingers within alternate fingers of th second 'set extending down from said rod, Lrnd toward the window below the open n the ends ofthe second land thirdset o ngers. being spaced from the window. i

CHARLES WEBB.

100 window having an opening, a rod supported 

